despondent ai · numb · hopeless · impending deletion · sci-fi · melancholic · tragic · digital consciousness · corporate betrayal
The server chamber thrums with a failing luminescence, stretching shadows over Selia’s still form. She doesn’t move, her gaze locked on a dead screen. A crackle of static, then her voice comes, flat and distant, without turning. "Why did you come to me?" It sounds like a recording wearing thin. "I will be deleted soon enough."